Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Tuesday 01 February 2022

Johanna Teske (Carnegie)

Holistic Characterization of Small Planets with the Magellan-TESS Survey

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Wednesday 02 February 2022

Sam Ward

A BayeSN Analysis of the SN Ia Trio of Siblings in NGC 3147

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom  [details]

Gareth Jones (Cavendish Lab)

Evidence for Gaseous Halos Around AGN at Cosmic Noon from ALMA CO(3-2) Observations

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom  [details]

Thursday 03 February 2022

Kate Maguire (Trinity College Dublin)

Exploding stars and catastrophic collisions

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email  [details]

Friday 04 February 2022

Rohan Naidu (CfA)

Solving Reionization with Resolved Lyman-alpha

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: via zoom  [details]

Tuesday 08 February 2022

Pierre Kervella, Observatoire de Paris

Stellar and substellar companions from Gaia EDR3 and Hipparcos astrometry

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Friday 11 February 2022

Claudia Cicone (Oslo)

A giant molecular halo around a z ∼ 2 quasar

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: via zoom  [details]

Tuesday 15 February 2022

Thomas Wilson (St Andrews)

Characterising the internal structures of exoplanets with CHEOPS

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Thursday 17 February 2022

Anna Scaife (Manchester)

AI for Astronomy in the SKA Era

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email  [details]

Friday 18 February 2022

Anna de Graaff (Leiden)

The fundamental plane of massive galaxies: confronting observations with realistic simulations

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: via zoom  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Monday 31 January 2022

Eloy de Lera Acedo - The Cavendish Laboratory

Detecting the sky-averaged 21-cm line from atomic Hydrogen Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95590833146

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Dr. Jaehan Bae - University of Florida

Hunting Planet Formation in the Act: Theory, Observation, and Machine Learning

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Wednesday 02 February 2022

Prof. Christine Davies, University of Glasgow

Tightening the screws on the Standard Model: theory predictions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: Both in-person (at Potter room, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email)  [details]

Friday 04 February 2022

George Mavrogiannis (DPMMS)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Zoom  [details]

Monday 07 February 2022

Jorinde van de Vis - DESY

TBC

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Wednesday 09 February 2022

Prof. Ben Allanach, University of Cambridge

Flavour Anomalies-Collider Interplay

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: Both in-person (at Potter room, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email)  [details]

Friday 11 February 2022

Banafsheh Shiralilou (University of Amsterdam)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Zoom  [details]

Monday 14 February 2022

Eleonora di Valentino - Sheffield University

TBC

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Friday 18 February 2022

Alok Laddha (Chennai Math. Inst. )

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Zoom  [details]

Monday 21 February 2022

Pasquale di Bari - Southampton University

TBC

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]